Seems to work OK, so far. The only remaining problems are trying to get it to recognize my PCMCIA-driven floppy and CDROM, and the display continues to be trouble. As I mentioned, if I use a "generic" VGA, I get a proper screen display; it just doesn't use all the available 800x480 screen. It seems (not matter what the selected screen display size, several of the Puppy built-ins (like PPM) seem to completely ignore my screen parameters and extend off-screen, hiding information and selection choices.

I'm fairly new to Puppy Linux and have posted a few topics throughout this forum. But I'm going to list some things that I would like to see improved. Of course some of these have been covered by others.

1) "Dependencies Issues" - This by far needs to be addressed and taken care of once and for all. Nothing frustrates a new Puppy user than when trying to install their favorite piece of software, and then greeted by a huge list of lib files to hunt down. This is inexcusable and should be a thing of the past.

2) "Better installation notifier" - When installing software there needs to be a clear and understanding knowledge that the software is being installed. Not just a few simple blurb windows that appears and disappears, but a window that has a indicator bar showing the user that it is being installed and is finished when done.

3) One other thing that I found odd was removing a piece of software that came with the Puppy Linux I had installed, and noticing that it also removed an important lib file that other pieces of software depended upon. This too needs to be corrected. The user should be able to uninstall any piece of software without malice whether it came pre-installed or not.

4) "Better upgrade-ability" - This I know has been mentioned before and I would like to see this made easier and less problematic.

5) The ability to update drivers and software through "Slickpet". This would ensure the latest drivers are available to the user to install.

6) "Muiltimedia" install option in Slickpet. This could install media stuff like gstreamer or other media necessities. Kind of like "Restricted Extras" in Ubuntu.

If anyone else has any other points for this list feel free to add on.

I'm using puppy 4.3.1, as that's what I thought I was supposed to do. Perhaps I should have started with some other version, I mean so as to get a better version of SeaMonkey?
But that's the only complaint I've got, I really like the system especially being able to boot from a CD, so thanks to the guys who made this possible.
Regards, Louis.

Glad you found your way here, Louis! I did too, abt a year ago & I keep finding myself back here after taking a tour with Ubuntu & then Lubuntu.

I wanted to address the issue of how to choose a version of Puppy to use that will work best for what you need and taking into consideration what your resources (hardware) can handle.

After reading countless forum posts on all kinds of questions, I started a thread (don't ask, I can't tell, 'cause I forgot!) for newbies who got as lost as I did last year just setting up wireless internet using a USB modem. Argh!

I went & found that thread some days back & discovered that all those issues had become moot (YAY! for newbies!) which is a great thing but I find that I still have NO clue as to which distro of Puppy will work the best with my little beast.

I don't know what the answer might be for figuring it out but I did have a good suggestion in the #puppylinux channel of the irc.freenode.net from a Mr. Frickss (he suggested Slacko 'cause I want to use Chromium as my browser).

I will go and try it out but in the meantime I've done a frugal install of Wary Puppy 5.2.2 which has ver 2.3.1 of Seamonkey, if it helps you or anyone else.

Forget PUPPY. After spending almost a week working with puppy, I'd invariably come to this (see picture attached). It appear when you try to install some application. The only solution that i found is to wipe and reinstall the system. But you loose all the settings and application that are installed.
Initially, I want Puppy for a 256 MB ram old laptop, but today I must look elsewhere.

- It's very hasardous to download application with built-in package manager (se picture attached)
- To install a printer is very difficult. I give-up after one day trying
- Doesn't keep some settings; I hardly configure to associate MSPowerPoint for the .ppt files, but those settings dissapears when reboot (I've installed full, not frugal)
- difficult to work with file opperation (copy, paste, etc)

One in all, it seems a joke OS or maybe I'm not good enough for this OS

This works the same way as with Windows.
And (unlike Windows) you can also copy/paste by shading the area to copy, moving to where you want it copied, and clicking the scroll wheel. So it's actually easier.

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Forget PUPPY. After spending almost a week working with puppy...it seems a joke OS

Then Windows must be, too, because it took me much longer than that to learn it.
(And I'm still learning it.)
Maybe you should try Windows 8.

Sorry that you had a bad experience using Puppy Linux. It seems to me that you installed "Precise Puppy 5.4" which is a new release from Puppy founder Barry K. I too, had the same thing happen and this could be a serious bug flaw. Barry in his blog post is working on a service pack which may address this issue and other bugs. Price one pays with any new release.

Please don't take this one bad experience with Puppy Linux as all are like this. I'm using Slacko 5.3.3 and from my use is very stable with plenty of software. Give it a try!

Newbies - Puppy is a brilliant distro for all sorts of people - but not yet for everyone (yet!). Some - hopefully just a few - don't get along with it. To make Puppy even better, we need to know WHY. If Puppy is not the answer to all your prayers, and especially if you are thinking of moving elsewhere, please pause and tell us what you didn't like, or what you would like to see get better, in this thread (but please discuss individual technical problems in another thread). Your views are very important - YOUR comments can help to make good things happen.

Hello everyone, I am a new member and I would like to thanks for offering support.
I finally decided to deal with Linux but with the live cd for now because have no time right now to deal with partitions and installations, also I need to buy a bigger hard disk.

I just downloaded Precise Puppy 5.4 and burned it on a cd, I'm happy with it because it looks nice, loads fast and the first run gives very clear instructions, you really cannot make mistakes.
However, as I'm not a Linux user the first thing I struggled with is the Home icon on the desktop.
It doesn't show all drives (I want to see the content) and even going up level it still doesn't show the root.
Same feeling regarding the file manager utility (I forgot its name), it just does the same behaviour as the Home icon, the only content visible is that from the live cd which I think is pointless.
There are the icons on the bottom which show all drives but why the file manager and the Home don't let see the root?
As I said I'm pretty new to Linux so if I said anything pity just let me know.

The Linux filesystem and the way Linux sees EVERYTHING including hardware as a point in the filesystem tree is different from the way other OS like Windows work. Consequently, it can be a little hard to adjust to in the beginning.

The simplest way to get at your hard drives is to use the icons at the bottom of the screen because these will automatically 'mount' the drive and open the file manager looking at the drive.

Having to mount the drive before you can see its contents is another feature of Linux. Consequently, even if you follow 666philb comments and try to seek the contents of your hard drive via the file manager you will not see the contents until the drive is mounted. The same thing applies if you want to save data from a program directly to the hard drive. The drive must be mounted first. This concept can really be tricky and upsets some people. However, it can be viewed as a security measure because mounting a device is an extra step any malware has to perform before it can deposit something on your computer without your knowledge. Also it is an extra step YOU have to perform before you can delete something you didn't mean to!

Yes, indeed it's "Precise Puppy 5.4". Instead of it, i've installed Peppermint last edition, but it doesn't impress me to much. Remember, I want a light SO for an old laptop. At home, on my desktop computer I use Ubuntu, and I'm very pleased with.

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Sorry that you had a bad experience using Puppy Linux. It seems to me that you installed "Precise Puppy 5.4" which is a new release from Puppy founder Barry K. I too, had the same thing happen and this could be a serious bug flaw. Barry in his blog post is working on a service pack which may address this issue and other bugs. Price one pays with any new release.

Please don't take this one bad experience with Puppy Linux as all are like this. I'm using Slacko 5.3.3 and from my use is very stable with plenty of software. Give it a try!

It doesn't have the CTR+S, CTR+V, CTRL+X, as in windows, or in other Linux distro.

Dewbie wrote:

SorinMS wrote:

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difficult to work with file opperation (copy, paste, etc)

This works the same way as with Windows.
And (unlike Windows) you can also copy/paste by shading the area to copy, moving to where you want it copied, and clicking the scroll wheel. So it's actually easier.

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Forget PUPPY. After spending almost a week working with puppy...it seems a joke OS

Then Windows must be, too, because it took me much longer than that to learn it.
(And I'm still learning it.)
Maybe you should try Windows 8.

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